Thinking beyond the canopy 
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New tree-planting and water-use methods boost soil carbon to aid food security in Africa
Innovative tree-planting techniques that amp up levels of soil organic carbon, an indicator of soil quality, are being encouraged on agricultural land in West Africa and the Sahel to strengthen food security in the region.
Diversified forest gardens can reduce food security risks in Latin America
Forest gardens within coffee plantations in Candelaria Loxicha, Mexico, play a vital role in supporting farmers’ livelihoods by providing basic food and cash income from diverse crops when coffee plantations provide insufficient...
Brazil forges forward on path to sustainable forest development
Brazil is forging forward towards its sustainable forest development goal, with many ministers and scientists hailing programs tackling deforestation that have played a critical role in getting the developing country back on the...
Forests becoming ‘human’s garden’, experts worried whether any truly wild places left
Scientists at the Planet under Pressure conference in London have warned of humankind’s entrance into a new epoch of civilisation – the anthropocene or “a man-made world” – partly brought about by a dogged determination to...
Crippling bureaucracy keeps Congo’s chainsaw millers in legal quagmire
Small-scale chainsaw millers in the Republic of Congo risk losing their livelihoods as crippling bureaucracy makes sawyers unable to obtain the logging permits needed to meet the conditions of a new forestry agreement with the...
